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Well, the weather outside is crappy.  The temps is in the low 70s (F) and we have very light rain.  Showers and thundershowers are headed our way for later this morning and into this early afternoon.  This is not good yardwork weather.  Things will be improving during the evening hours.

I did get my upper body workout in yesterday.  I also worked yesterday.  It was a good day for flooring.  One of my fellow specialists sold a hardwood installation for $20,000.  That's nice.  Management is quite happy.  I have a $25,000 tile floor installation in a restaurant that is not going to go through.  The customer signed up for the free measure just to get the square footage, he'll have someone else install it for a lot less.  The tile he chose to get the quote is too thin to support the heavy traffic of a restaurant.  When I told him this, he said, "no problem, none of my employees are heavy," and laughed.  

Even though it's drizzly outside, I am going to try and get some yard cleanup done, though nothing with the chainsaw.  It's electric.  Water and electricity are not a good combination.  I suspect the rest of the week is going to be very busy.

So, if you happened to watch the Australian feed during the World Cup ceremony, you heard the announcer say of the Orange Anus, "they'll just edit him out."  Well, that is exactly what both Spain and FIFA did.

And guess who had his feeling hurt?  Guess who blew a shitty little gasket?  Orangie.  He was so furious that both Spain and FIFA made that moment about the winners and not him, his allies started photoshopping him into all sorts of pictures.  I suspect that this means he's entering into his omnipresent stage of dementia, when even though he wants you to believe he's everywhere, in reality he is nowhere.

We're also discovering that this administration has been lying about the number of casualties in Orangie's war with Iran.  Why am I not surprised?  Orangie needs all of his decisions to be seen as good, so all the bad get's swept under the carpet, or at least so he and his admin believe.  This is why they hate leakers.

Word also comes that Kegsbreath Hegseth now wants to "cloak" military expenses.  This either means that the grift is becoming obvious, or they're about to break the backs of the American taxpayer, or, and this is most likely, both are happening.  Or, and this might be true also, Keggie's makeup artist wants a raise.

Finally, Russ Vaught is leaving one of his positions.  He'll still be with the administration, but he'll no longer be in charge of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  For those who missed it, he got his ass yelled at badly at a Congressional hearing.  Like all conservatives, he truly hates taking responsibility for his actions.  He'll still be working with Orangie, but this is a step in the right direction.

Trump Embarrasses America... Again

Last night our temp dropped down to 61 (F).  That's good sleeping weather.  If the long range forecast sticks, which is very unlikely as there's a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico that looks to be heading north, our daily highs should be in the low 80s (F).  Our overnight temps should drop into the low 60s (F).  Again, I can live with this.

I worked yesterday.  Business was slow.  I almost made my sales goal, but not quite, but that's about it.  While not be super busy during the summer, we're usually steady. so selling installs and reaching our sales goals is not that big of a problem.  However, things are much more expensive now then they've every been.  We are offering promotions, however, 15% off a carpet installation is not a big enough incentive while other prices are constantly rising.  I'm lucky in that I can work in 2 different departments, 3 if you count appliances.  Many other part-time associates have only been trained to work in their home department.  While full-time associates might think they're safe, many retailers see lowered sales as a good reason to eliminate those positions, replacing them with one or 2 part-timers who don't need to get paid for an 8 hour shift.

And I did buy a chainsaw yesterday.  I bought the same model I used to own.  I don't know how much I'm going to use it this morning, since I'm scheduled to work this afternoon. Tomorrow?  Rain is expected.

Of course Howie is in stick heaven.

And here's a bit of a funny thing:  An Italian sculptor living in New York named Sergio Furnari took it upon himself to sculpt a statue of Charlie Kirk. He spent a lot of his own money thinking the statue would make millions.  Besides being ugly, no one wants it, in fact, Sergio is quite upset that he's being inundated with emails from people telling him that they're going to piss on it.  So tell me, would you... piss on it?

Finally, the Orange Anus made an ass out of himself again yesterday at the world cup.  Argentina learned about the Trump Curse.  When the Anus refused to leave the stage, the Australian announcer said, "we'll just edit him out."  The Spanish networks did just that.  A number of other foreign announcers noted how Orangie was "booed mercilessly," as he walked across the field to the stage.  And, of course, he refused to leave, even when they tried to escort him off and so he stood there by himself, embarrassing the hell out of the United States.

Spain

 Well, we were down near freezing again this morning.  The temps will warm up.  They did yesterday.  We reached a high of 55 (F).  Of course, I was working, but believe me, so many people came in and talked about the weather and the warm temps.  Their most common comment was "this is so... unnatural."  A week short of December and we're experience early to mid autumn temps.  Next week we're supposed to cool off.  I'll believe it when it happens.

During my workout yesterday morning, I kneed my weight bench and a 20 pound dumbbell fell on the floor.  Wowza!  It did make a loud noise.  I usually set my dumbbells on the floor when I'm not using them, yesterday, I didn't.  A lesson has been learned.

And I did work yesterday.  Right now I'm leading the department in sales.  I work a  shift today, however, the weather's not supposed to be too nice, so management will just have to be satisfied with what I have.

Every now and then, out of curiosity. I will check to see where my readers are located in the world.  I'm always impressed that there are people in Indonesia, and the Philippines who read what I write.  Thank you very much!  A number of people in England sit down and look at my blog.  France, too, and it's nice to see you number in the hundreds.  Germany?  Many, many thanks to my German readers!  You rock!  There is one country, however, that doesn't have a single reader, and that's Spain.  People of Spain I adore you!  I love your movies!  I love your TV series!   Right now I'm watching The Crystal Cuckoo! Catalonia is the greatest!  I wake up dreaming I'm in Barcelona! (do you think I'm getting my point across?)

And now for a poetry break.

And something with worsted gold sat among the natty leaves

And everyone was flipping out about the so-called peace plan Orangie's administration was trying to shove down Ukraine's throat because it gave his blow bro Vlad everything he wanted, that was until word broke that it was nothing more than Vlad's wish list.  As expected, Orangie's not happy.  Vlad's not happy.  It's my understanding that there's been some rearranging and now the Ukraine, the Europeans, and the US are sitting down in Geneva to start working on another peace plan.  It appears that Vlad's not sending anyone because he's an asshole.  

And Orangie flipped out again because his wannabe dictator authority is still being questioned.  What the GOP fails to understand is that every time he pulls carp like this it hurts him.  They still cling to that belief that a majority of quiet Americans love and adore Orangie, and that they will bow down to his every whim.  They are totally out of touch with America, and it's killing them off.

History 101

 So, what can I say?  My house smells like turkey?  It does.  I cook mine in a very large electric roasting pan (a really big one), and I have to admit the smell of a fowl that large cooking is not too damn appetizing... until about the last half hour, then the house smells delectable.  Also on the menu were homemade potato stuffing (with tons of celery and onion lightly fried in olive oil) and lemon bars.  The bars tuned out a little too chewy, but still tasty.  I'm going to blame the chewiness on the fact that this was a new recipe.  The stuffing?  Almost became a divinely succulent the main course.   In fact, they're going to be my breakfast.

And yesterday Sixpence posted a little something from some ass named Robert Raymond who attempted to vilify what he called the Mayflower Expedition.  I really get tired of people who point to one specific individual, or group, and blame them for American history.  Evidently his education is lacking, otherwise he'd have known that everybody was doing this.  The English were also down in Virginia, the Dutch were doing the same thing in New Amsterdam (we call it New York), the French in New Orleans, and don't forget the Spanish who liked Florida.  If you speak Spanish, you owe your language skills to the atrocities wrought by your forefathers.  Overall, as a species, we have not been generous to the native peoples of America.  Our great, great, great, great grandparents were all guilty, with no exception.  So, let's stop singling out one person, or one group, and saying they were terrible because by some of the standards we hold today, they did terrible things.

My apologies to the Swedes, I failed to mention them

On a brighter note, I get to go sell appliances today... for 5 hours.  I took a good look at my schedule and realized that except for one day in 2 weeks, all my work days start at noon.  I can live with that.